To Open a File Directly:

Put your ActivStats CD into the CD-ROM tray.

Double-click on the file's icon.

You may get a dialog box asking you to select the application that
should open the file you just double-clicked. Scroll through the
dialog until you find Data Desk. Then double-click on the name "Data
Desk".

To Open A File from within Data
Desk:

First, start ActivStats. Press the eyeglass to load Data Desk.

Select New DataFile in the File menu.

Select Open Datafile from the
File menu.

Click on the Folder popupmenu to
locate the Floppy (A) drive. Double click on it.

You will see icons for all the files
on your floppy disk. Double click the one you
want.

To DOWNLOAD data from the web and get it
into Data Desk, do this:

Download the TEXT file by clicking on its name.

Select all the data (click-and-drag). DO
NOT USE SELECT ALL IN THE EDIT MENU!!

Select Copy in the Edit menu.

Press your Browser's BACK button.

Start Data Desk (or switch to it if it is already
running).

Select NEW DATA FILE in the file menu.

Select Paste Variables (Edit menu).

Click "Set Delimiters".

Click "Commas"

Click "Okay"

Click "Use These Variable Names"

Save the file.

Save the data file in a convenient location -- a place where
you will remember where you put it!